{"id":158880,"date":"2015-06-12T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158880"},"modified":"2015-06-12T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:15:58","slug":"evil-real-george-bush-making-millions-off-ungodly-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/evil-real-george-bush-making-millions-off-ungodly-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Is Real: George Bush Is Making Millions Off His Ungodly Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The empire staggers on. Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2015\/06\/10\/furthering-failed-strategy-obama-send-more-ground-troops-iraq\">sends<\/a> more senseless troops to Iraq, revisionist history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/06\/10\/american_imperialists_are_in_denial_henry_kissinger_george_w_bush_and_the_end_of_u_s_hegemony_partner\/\">proclaims <\/a>the &#8220;courage&#8221; of the authors of its tragedy, and George W, accomplishing at least his declared mission of \u201creplenishing the ol\u2019 coffers,\u201d is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/06\/on-talk-circuit-george-bush-makes-millions-but-few-waves-118697.html\">raking in <\/a>millions with equally senseless $175,000 speeches a pop to audiences who evidently, inexplicably, dispiritingly seem to think he has something to say.<\/p>\n<p>Eagerly embracing the profits of what has been deemed &#8220;the post-presidential industrial complex,&#8221; Bush had given at least 140 talks by 2011, when they became harder to track, for fees ranging from $100,000 to upwards of $175,000, reports <em>Politico. <\/em>These days, the details of his appearances are carefully shielded behind confidentiality agreements and bans on recordings; they&#8217;re also commonly held in private venues like resorts, casinos, ballrooms and convention centers. When he spoke at a fundraiser for a homeless shelter in McKinney, Texas &#8211; McKinney again! &#8211; he charged a modest $100,000, and was reportedly &#8220;very popular and charming and pleasant.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/further\/2015\/06\/11\/evil-real-george-bush-making-millions-his-ungodly-crimes\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The empire staggers on. Obama sends more senseless troops to Iraq, revisionist history proclaims the &#8220;courage&#8221; of the authors of its tragedy, and George W, accomplishing at least his declared mission of \u201creplenishing the ol\u2019 coffers,\u201d is raking in millions with equally senseless $175,000 speeches a pop to audiences who evidently, inexplicably, dispiritingly seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}